You know that feeling when you're distinctly unwell but not quite sick? 🥲 Sore limbs, tired body, mild nausea, aching head, preoccupied mind, loud thoughts...
And here I hoped this week's sunny weather would help me feel better. 😞 If you guys have some fun or light observations and ideas that you want to share with me, please do feel free to send them my way, as I'm sure it would greatly help lift my spirits. 🙏🍀
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in light of the newest mishagate which succession character do you guys think is the most likely to accidentally come out as bisexual, walk it back, then reveal a year later that they were pressured by their employer to keep up the ruse for publicity
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drew a tour poster for the lovely @earlgreytea68 in honor of Swan Song officially being published as a book!!! I love the story so much and I’m so proud of them— I wish I could read it. make sure to check that out if you can!!!!!! for this I thought I should keep the original concept of my design for banter and badinage’s art, but I expanded on it— attempted to mature it, in a way. I’m not sure if that came through.
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Discussing the NCR (Fallouts NV's Military Industrial Complex)
Fallout regularly discusses the idea of the military, its faults, its strengths, and most importantly, the psycho-social aspects of it regarding those who are members. We have seen a direct critique of the military generalized through the Enclave's overt nationalism, the hoarding of resources and indoctrination through the Brotherhood of Steel, and an almost eerily modern critique of the whole military-industrial complex through the NCR in New Vegas. In these series of posts, I will be focusing primarily if not exclusively on the last one.
The NCR we see in the game is strictly the military side of things and the depiction of active occupation during a time of eminent war, conflicting factions, and resource scarcity. It is in this we are missing a major factor that negatively affects the view of the NCR in the game and out: Civilian life along with citizen opinion on the military. While we do get Mojave civilian opinion on the military (often neutral or negative) we do not get those who are New California Republic citizens, not those who actually discuss the military more so not understanding the importance of the occupation and the President's choices.
We do not see how life is regularly lived by the average citizen as we have not seen New California in New Vegas, though, we get words and glimpses that the people are relatively content in the growing country minus the fact many people are not happy with the choice of encroaching on the Mojave. This most similarly reflects it's real-world application that many civilian citizens reject acquisition and war due to the economic effects it has on the country and the general violence/loss associated.
In this, we come to an issue of losing a perspective that is unique to the NCR as a military representative. The Brotherhood is notably a place where its active members are intertwined with its efforts, the young are raised to be scribes, paladins, etc... To where even if one is not fighting for The Brotherhood, they are still intertwined, it's propaganda is the life. The Enclave is even more cut n' dry in that it is mostly made up of government representatives. It is a group even smaller than the former, even more selective and intertwined that their propaganda IS a form of Eugenics. The NCR is unique in that there is a clear distinction between what is the military force, the civilian population, and the choice if one wants to be a part of the former.
There is a distinct difference in the cultures of the factions you are born into and those you must enlist or join (forcibly for some). While this is a long-winded way to get into the actual discussion I want to facilitate throughout these posts I wanted an initial background post to understand the aspects I am and am not exploring and explaining along with a hub post to link everything I intend to discuss in the coming days and weeks, starting with:
Why Do People Join the NCR?
...which will be discussed and linked back here like everything else regarding to this topic.
Links: TBA
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Psst @desceros
I’ve gotta tell you, this comic is quickly becoming my new wip baby. I’ve got about 7ish panels out of 19 done so progress is strong
So, while I chip away at this comic I was wondering if you had a name for this villain rise Donnie universe - or if it’s up to workshop a title?
Alsssooo- *this will totally not lead to more comic work* but your little blurb mentions that our dear reader is draxum’s lab assistant, so that creates a perfect scenario for them to conveniently be caught in the destruction of his lab once again after the three other turtle brothers stumble upon it as they do in the show (OvO)
WITH THIS IS MIND (this ideas has dragged me to the depths of brain-rot) it becomes the perfect set up for 1) mutated lab assistant and all the angst of no longer being a human AND 2) injuries reflecting Donnie’s terrible past on his lovely and all the emotional turmoil surrounding an injured loved one (maybe a little revenge for #3?)
ANYWAY - just everything involving this villain Donnie universe has taken a hold of me. Everything from the cutesy relationship stuff to just the gut wrenching angst potential
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I was raised atheist. My father was atheist, my mother agnostic, and neither of them bothered to teach me what religion even was, much less anything ABOUT religion except that involved some dude named "god" whose name we used in a lot of phrases.
(This led to some hilarious situations, such as when I thought the Bible was a poorly written fairy tale and also the time I tried to found my own religion, but those are stories for a different day.)
A thing I've noticed a lot is that Christians and especially ex-Christian atheists assume that my childhood was Just Like Theirs, Minus God.
They assume that OF COURSE I celebrated Christmas, in fact, I probably love Christmas more than they do because I never got dragged to church.
They assume that OF COURSE I grew up with Christian neuroses about gender roles, relationships, and sex! When they find out I'm queer and trans, they automatically assume that the process of accepting myself involved a lot of messy reckoning with my entire upbringing and worldview.
They assume that OF COURSE I was raised to never question things and to be seen rather than heard and to defer to authority, and that the process of becoming the loudmouthed nonconforming scientist I am now was one of rebellion.
But none of these are true! While my childhood was deeply authoritarian and bigoted, it was not in a Christian way. My experiences are fundamentally different from those of someone raised Christian.
And the idea that all of these Christian things are just default childrearing practices, as opposed to specific manifestations of a particular cultural and religious context, is one of the hard to combat ways that Christian supremacy works. By convincing people that these things are not Christian, they're ubiquitous, they assimilate people into a Christian context even if the victims don't necessarily convert.
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